Internet of Things
The phenomenon of connected machines is sometimes called the Internet of
Things, the Internet of Anything, the Internet of Everything, or M2M
(machine to machine). But no matter what the name, the growth of technology
related to objects, which never before were network- and computer-enabled,
is projected to have far-reaching technological, societal, and economic
impact.
The strongest examples of the impact of the Internet of Things are in the
industrial sector. Embedded software, sensors, and network connectivity
promises to improve the way factories, data centers, oil wells, and cities,
airplanes, cars, and even homes are maintained because data can be collected
continuously with alerts issues proactively to prevent failures and outages.
According to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, 50 billion devices
will be connected by 2020, up from 2010's 12.5 billion. By 2020, data
production will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009, and by 2020, more
than one-third of the data produced will live in or pass through the cloud,
according to Computer Sciences Corp.
Internet of Things Articles
EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading sovereign AI and data company, announced new investments in petabyte-scale analytics, expanding EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) for WarehousePG with real-time streaming and enhanced observability to give enterprises greater control over warehouse data, costs, and deployment strategies.
Posted December 23, 2025
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is launching Percona Packages, a suite of structured consulting and support offerings for enterprise IT and DBA teams.
Posted December 22, 2025
Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, announced it is joining the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
Posted December 18, 2025
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is introducing new capabilities to its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution—designed to give enterprises greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services.
Posted December 18, 2025
IBM announced its intention to acquire Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, signing a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion.
Posted December 18, 2025
Firefly AI, the agentic cloud automation platform, is introducing its Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) solution—designed to help enterprises take a proactive approach to cloud outages, cyberattacks, and human error.
Posted December 18, 2025
Oracle is now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Canada, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal) and North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto) Google Cloud regions.
Posted December 17, 2025
It is an unfortunate result of being human that we are biased by our first impressions. For example, we are often blinded when we encounter a subject area's data for the first time. The initial data structures we analyze and learn to understand set our internal paradigms. Once we understand that initial structure, we tend to believe that the way that structure is configured is the best, or the only way, that a specific data set of that kind of data should be presented.
Posted December 17, 2025
SAP announced that AUMOVIO, the newly launched global technology company focused on future mobility, has selected a comprehensive suite of cloud solutions from SAP to help build its digital foundation. These include SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Signavio solutions.
Posted December 17, 2025
SAP SE announced the next stage of its vision for European digital sovereignty with the launch of EU AI Cloud. According to the company, SAP now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe.
Posted December 17, 2025
For the past decade, the industry mantra has been "move to the cloud." Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost savings. Many organizations followed suit—often quickly—migrating databases and applications out of their data centers. But it was never a sustainable goal to move everything to the cloud, even if industry pundits predicted that outcome.
Posted December 17, 2025
Progress Software, a provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, announced the Q4 2025 release of its developer toolsets Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI—introducing Agentic AI as an active development partner through a Progress Agentic UI Generator along with a powerful set of new AI-driven features.
Posted December 16, 2025
As companies chase efficiency, it's no surprise that today's customer service call is more likely to be answered by a bot than by the much-maligned, outsourced operators of the past. Executives celebrate this shift with near-religious zeal. AI doesn't ask for vacation days, sick leave, or overtime pay. It's a one-time investment that trims expenses and inflates margins—pure gold for companies chasing acquisitions or juiced valuations.
Posted December 15, 2025
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and announced the founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md.
Posted December 15, 2025
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
Posted December 15, 2025
In an era of dynamic and uneven requirements, regulatory compliance is strategic enabler for growth, competitive advantage, and mastering AI governance. Organizations should aim to not only keep pace with regulations but also unlock tangible business value from their compliance investments.
Posted December 11, 2025
Ad-blockers and privacy-focused browser protections are eroding business analytics at the precise moment when organizations must sharpen their understanding of user behavior to remain competitive. This silent, pervasive shift is creating a profound analytics blind spot, especially for SaaS organizations whose primary users are software engineers.
Posted December 11, 2025
The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and improve business value. I've long said, "the tyranny of the urgent leaves little time for the truly important."
Posted December 11, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the modern workplace remains anything but predictable—but that doesn't mean you can't move forward with clarity and intention. For database professionals—especially those in leadership or management roles—the pressure to evolve is constant. From AI-driven automation to evolving compliance demands and growing data complexity, you're tasked with delivering results while navigating near-constant change.
Posted December 11, 2025
BeyondTrust, a global leader in privilege-centric identity security, and Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world's largest enterprises, are partnering to deliver a unified, end-to-end identity security solution that helps customers maintain good identity hygiene by integrating Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
Posted December 10, 2025
Neo4j, a leading graph intelligence platform, is releasing Neo4j Fleet Manager—a unified control plane for managing and monitoring graph databases across any environment including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises.
Posted December 10, 2025
Paystand, a leading blockchain-powered B2B payments network, is acquiring Bitwage, the leading platform for stablecoin-enabled cross-border payouts.
Posted December 10, 2025
Coralogix, a leading provider of modern observability solutions, is releasing Olly, an autonomous observability agent that independently investigates and surfaces production issues in real time.
Posted December 09, 2025
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, is entering into a new strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)—helping customers de-risk cloud migrations, accelerate modernization, secure AWS and multi-cloud environments, and confidently deploy GenAI capabilities on AWS.
Posted December 08, 2025
This year has seen a variety of changes in the AI landscape, from the proliferation of agents to major questions around AI's true return on investment. In the end, it's all about the data.
Posted December 08, 2025
One of the largest power grid operators in the U.S. is asking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to only allow large data centers to connect to the grid if there's enough capacity available to serve them reliably, according to Utility Dive. The infrastructure underlying big data processing, typically large-scale data centers, is starting to receive pushback as more residents in the U.S. see climbing energy costs.
Posted December 08, 2025
Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power enterprise-grade generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon.
Posted December 08, 2025
IBM and Cisco are partnering on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s.
Posted December 08, 2025
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is making significant updates to its solution that provides customers with faster data transfers, as well as predictable pricing, to enable accurate and secure data for AI and analytics.
Posted December 05, 2025
Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a global leader in mass-capacity data storage, is introducing its new Seagate Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems, setting a new standard for enterprise storage ahead of the SuperComputing (SC25) conference.
Posted December 04, 2025
Poor-quality test data leads to poor production applications, compliance risks, and inefficiencies that will be costing the organization time, money, and very soon its competitive edge.
Posted December 04, 2025
As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2026.
Posted December 03, 2025
After a banner year for the "promise of progress" on AI ambitions, deepening CX fatigue, and ongoing economic volatility, Forrester is predicting 2026 will bring a year of reckoning. According to Sharyn Leaver, chief research officer at Forrester, "Navigating the coming year will take some mindset shifts: from lofty ambition to pragmatism, from experimentation to accountability, from surface-level engagement to meaningful connection." To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and efforts to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
Posted December 03, 2025
Oracle announced Oracle Health's next generation electronic health record (EHR) is now certified and ready for adoption by ambulatory customers in the U.S. The Oracle Health EHR was built from the ground up on a secure, modern cloud architecture with AI embedded in every layer and workflow, according to Oracle.
Posted December 03, 2025
Oracle announced it has been recognized as an Overall Leader in the 2025 ISG Buyers Guide for Workforce Management Basics. Oracle Workforce Management, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), was classified as Exemplary, which is defined as "those that performed the best in meeting the overall Product and Customer Experience requirements."
Posted December 03, 2025
NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. are expanding their partnership to revolutionize design and engineering across industries. According to both companies, this expanded partnership will integrate the strengths of NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys' market-leading engineering solutions to deliver capabilities enabling R&D teams to design, simulate, and verify intelligent products with greater precision, speed, and at lower cost.
Posted December 01, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is launching Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage solution designed to address the demands of most mission-critical business and growing AI workloads.
Posted November 25, 2025
From the U.S. government letting CISA briefly lapse to recent "internet-breaking" updates sent out by various companies that form the backbone of web infrastructure, cybersecurity and resilience is more important than ever. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats, security measures, and more in 2026.
Posted November 24, 2025
Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security, announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), expanding its use of advanced AWS technologies to help customers protect, backup, and recover data at scale.
Posted November 24, 2025
A few months ago, I was on a call with one of our partners who had just returned from a large construction site in Dubai. They were implementing a worker safety system, and the site manager had walked them through their setup—RFID tags clipped to every hard hat, sensors detecting man-down situations, geofencing alerts when someone entered a hazardous zone. Impressive technology, yet the site manager, my partner told me, seemed frustrated. "We know where someone is," the site manager explained, "but we don't know what they're actually doing or if they're properly protected."
Posted November 20, 2025